Suspected herdsmen attack travellers, kill driver, abduct passengers in Ekiti

Suspected herdsmen have attacked a vehicle in Ekiti state killing the driver and abducting the passengers.

According to report, the travellers were returning from a social function when the gunmen attacked their LEXUS 330 SUV car.

Eyewitnesses claimed there were five occupants in the vehicle while the police reported their are two other occupants of the vehicle aside from the driver.

The Ekiti State Police Command spokesman, ASP Sunday Abutu, told newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, that the attack took place between Ewu-Ekiti and Aiyetoro-Ekiti, neighbouring communities in Ilejemeje and Ido/Osi Local Government Areas of Ekiti State.

According to ASP Abutu, the police, in conjunction with local hunters and operatives of Amotekun Corps, were already combing the forest around the area to rescue the victims and arrest the gunmen.

Meamwhile, this incident occurred four days after gunmen also suspected to be herdsmen shot and killed a man named Ademola Afolayan on a poultry farm in Ikere-Ekiti on Monday, Aug.ust2 at about 5 p.m.

The gunmen, numbering about five, invaded the poultry farm located at Eselemo Farm, Igbo-Oka area close to Akure Road, shooting sporadically and in the process, killed Afolayan.

Two persons were said to have narrowly escaped the Monday incident.

Also former Ekiti State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Comrade Clement Adekola, escaped death by the whiskers when his vehicle was attacked on Tuesday, Aug. 3, also at about 5 p.m.

The gunmen opened fire on Adekola’s vehicle as he was travelling along Ikere-Igbara Odo Road, in Ikere Local Government Area of Ekiti State.

Recently, kidnappers allegedly abducted some travellers in three commercial buses on Akure/Ikere-Ado Ekiti road in Ekiti State.

It was gathered that the kidnapping gunmen swooped on the travellers’ vehicles while navigating through the bad portions of the road.

One of the drivers narrowly escaped the incident that took place between Iju community in Ondo State and Ikere-Ekiti in Ekiti State.

An eyewitness said that the vehicles were left in the middle of the road, a situation which attracted members of the public who raised the alarm.

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